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Last year in Springfield, MO I saw a flock of whooping cranes flying south. Take that pattern, shrink the numbers, but enlarge the birds and picture it in slow motion. The absolute most amazingly beautiful display of flying I have EVER seen. Magnificent. I even had my free 2 meg kodak camera with me, but the 20 second videos didn’t do them justice. (Well, it was equal to a slow motion landing of a jet at an air show.)

These birds look like Grackles. If they are spotted they are starlings, if luminescent blue/black, Grackles. They are hilarious to watch. As they walk they pick up a leaf, throw it, and look for bugs.

I once saw about 50-100 mourning doves in a couple of trees. THAT was weird.

Last year in Springfield, MO I saw a flock of whooping cranes flying south

I wonder if they were actually sandhill cranes- they are pretty similiar,make practically the same noise and their numbers have increased a lot, while I think that the whooping cranes haven't.

Sandhill cranes winter in southern Colorado and flocks of them fly right over our house in the fall. It's almost prehistoric- they make an unreal whooping sound, and they have to wait until it warms up to take off because they are so big.